NetBSD gate.quick.com.au 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (GATE) #0: 
	Sat Aug  9 09:30:09 EST 1997
	root@zen.quick.com.au:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GATE i386

[uptime is 19 days since last panic - suspect faulty hardware]

Check this:

  PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
20144 ??  R    187:53.62 /bin/sh /etc/hourly.d/S10clean_junk start

that little script does:
:
test -d /var/spool/news/junk && (cd /var/spool/news && nice -n18 find
junk control -type f -print | nice -n18 xargs rm) &

and both the junk and control dirs are empty!
top shows:

load averages:  1.08,  1.16,  1.21                                     18:23:38
70 processes:  3 running, 66 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 33.5% user,  0.0% nice, 66.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.4% idle
Memory: 5776K Act 3484K Inact 3728K Wired 1240K Free 24M Swap 104M Swap free 
 
  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
20144 root      89    0  320K  108K run   -      193:26 93.90% sh
25223 root      30    0  260K  612K run   -        0:00  0.98% top

Rats, kill -6 did not get me a core file...

--sjg